Rumblings xtra: Items that didn't make print edition

By: Bob Hunter

The Columbus Dispatch - October 12, 2012 09:14 AM

Scott Rolen doesn’t know whether his major league career is over or not. After the
Reds' 6-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants in Game 5 of the National League Division Series
ended the season, reporters gathered around the Cincinnati third baseman’s locker kept asking
whether he had decided to retire.

Rolen didn’t have an answer, in part because he isn’t sure what he wants to do and in part
because he knows it might not be his decision, anyway.

“My contract’s up,” he said. “There’s times you can’t make your own decisions. I have to see
what’s going on and where we are.”

One thing Rolen did know: His idea of having this season as something of a farewell tour didn’t
quite work out that way. When a reporter reminded him of his comments to that effect on opening
day and asked him how that turned out, Rolen grinned.

“Not very well,” he said. “This game is too damned hard. You think you’re going to smell the
roses and you can’t, because you’re getting 94 (mph) with a cutter, a guy’s throwing 100 out
there. That’s not fun. You don’t soak that up. You’re miserable when you get just annihilated at
the plate. So that was a great idea, a great thought. My heart was in the right place, but that
didn’t happen.”

Dublin native Brady Quinn, the former Cleveland first round draft pick who lost
his job with the Browns and sat the bench in Denver before moving on to Kansas City as Matt Cassel’s
backup, is going to get another chance as a starter Sunday when the Chiefs play the 1-3 Tampa
Bay Buccaneers.

While prospects for the Chiefs aren’t good, the former Notre Dame star looks to have a fairer
chance there than he did in Cleveland. Kansas City not only has a better supporting cast than Quinn
had with the Browns – even with injuries to the offensive line, the Chiefs showed they could run
the football against a stout Ravens defense -- and KC’s remaining opponents have a combined record
of 13-25.

Terrell Owens, the former Bengals wide receiver who was released by the Seattle
Seahawks during the preseason, posted a message on his Twitter account during Monday night’s
Houston Texans-New York Jets game that indicating his interest in joining the Jets: